hat the customer can afford to part with. The three year span thatthis story covers utilizes the time at which is at hand. One form of symbolism is the actions of the children in this novel. Forinstance, the building of a snowman by Jem and Scout one winter is verysymbolic. There was not enough snow to make a snowman entirely out ofsnow, so Jem made a foundation out of dirt, and then covered it withwhat snow they had. The creation of the snowman by Jem can be seen asbeing symbolic of Jem trying to cover up the black man and showing thathe is the same as the white man, that all human beings are virtually thesame. Also the actions of Atticus Finch are also symbolic of the prejudiceSouth. It may not seem so at first, but the shooting of the rabid dog byAtticus was greatly illustrative. Here the rabid dog, Tim Johnson,represents prejudice, and how, like a rabid dog, it spreads its diseasethroughout the South. Atticus Finch is seen as the hero as he kills racismand prejudice, not allowing it to spread itself any further. Realistically,Atticus was unable to kill the prejudice of Maycomb county.The story of To Kill a mockingbird takes place in Alabama during theDepression. It is narrated by the main character, Scout Finch. Her father,Atticus, is a lawyer with high moral standards. She, Jem, and their friendDill are intrigued by the local rumors that are about their neighbor, a mannamed Boo Radley who never sets foot out of his house. The innocentchildhood games that tumbles into something adult and serious is a fairlycommon theme in fiction, but I have not for some time seen the idea usedso forcefully as in To Kill a Mockingbird... The game is ‘making Boo comeout’ which the children of a Southern lawyer play outside the old home ofa family of foot-washing Baptists where, according to one among manylegends, Boo Radley has been chained up for years and years for stabbinghis father with scissors (Waterhouse 580). Dill is from Mississi...
